MINERVA ARTS 

What's Your Role? Promoting Youth Volunteering

towards support for three new youth theatres

We'll bring children and young people from across Cheshire together. The children can share their experiences, hopes and dreams for the post-Covid-19 world through online workshops and events.

Minerva Arts has a long history of providing high quality arts participation for young people in Cheshire though regular youth theatre groups and stand-alone projects. This project seeks to provide ....more

Minerva Arts has a long history of providing high quality arts participation for young people in Cheshire though regular youth theatre groups and stand-alone projects. This project seeks to provide additional support to those families who engage in youth theatre but have been struck by hard times in the pandemic by offering some extra financial support to subsidise youth theatre places and provide some extra activities and pastoral support for these young people. The key difference this funding will make is in providing a free service to support young people who have missed out on interaction, creativity and the chance to find their own identities outside the home and school during the pandemic. Young people's mental health was already in crisis and this period has exacerbated this. Time with like-minded friends. time to express themselves in a creative space and chance to share their feelings with peers and trusted adults is vital to helping heal. 

This project will bring together young people with the current festival committee to help build capacity and secure the future of the festival through a programme of peer learning and group training. ....more

This project will bring together young people with the current festival committee to help build capacity and secure the future of the festival through a programme of peer learning and group training. This will upskill young people and develop their confidence and agency in community involvement.

Our project will use the arts as a tool to create and advocate for social change. We will work with our existing youth groups in both Lache and Kingsway as well as other specialist groups including ....more

Our project will use the arts as a tool to create and advocate for social change. We will work with our existing youth groups in both Lache and Kingsway as well as other specialist groups including The Proud Trust, Chapter Mental Health and Chester Friends of the Earth to create a series of art interventions that reflect contemporary issues in society that impact the young people of Lache and Kingsway. Our themes of choice will come from a ‘menu’ of the environment and climate change, LGBT+ issues and mental health. Each of these have been selected through work that the young people have undertaken this year. We will work for two terms with each of our Youth Theatre groups to decide upon a theme, research that theme, speak to experts and engage with other young people who are impacted by the issues, then leading to the creation of an artistic response that will be performed at community events or as street theatre. The young people taking part will have the chance to get involved in research around their issue, learn from those with first-hand experience and exercise their creative skills to reach the widest audience with their chosen message.

The charity will provide arts and cultural activities for young people to reduce the risk of anti-social behaviour and the breakdown in relationships between young people and older members of the ....more

The charity will provide arts and cultural activities for young people to reduce the risk of anti-social behaviour and the breakdown in relationships between young people and older members of the community.